Obs. [f. the Du. personal name Verpoort or Verport.] A class of tulips (see quots.).
1796. C. Marshall, Garden., xix. (1813), 380. The plain tulips … are called whole blowers, or breeders; and accordingly as they break into other colours, stripes and variegations,… are denominated and classed into baguettes, bybloemens, verports, and bizarres.
1824. Loudon, Encycl. Gard. (ed. 2), 832. The Dutch florists class their late-blowing tulips as under:… Prime baguets,… Baguets Rigaut’s … Incomparable Verports.
